Chambers Memorial Hospital, Smiths Falls postcard, ca. 1930

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Valentine & Sons' Publishing Co. Ltd.

George T. Martin

, Architect

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From the collection of David Maddock.

See the Pages box at top of this record and click the downward pointing select arrow to access the reverse of the postcard.

Notes

Glenn J. Lockwood's "Smiths Falls: A Social History of the Men and Women in a Rideau Canal Community 1794-1994", p.449 - plate 179 - the caption reads: "The Chambers memorial public hospital, Smith's Falls, designed by local architect, G.T. Martin, and built by contractor John Davidson in 1912. The rumblings of discontent among the Protestant doctors in Saint Francis hospital were seized upon by the Reverend C.V. Forster Bliss, urging that a public hospital be built on the site of the homestead of John McGill Chambers (Plate 81). In 1910, before any other town in the interior of eastern Ontario dreamed of building a hospital, there was a campaign to build a second hospital at Smith's Falls. The tall Ionic pillars of the front entrance and the twelve foot ceilings inside were intended to make the Chambers memorial hospital more imposing than Saint Francis hospital, effectively setting off a rivalry between the two that would last for over two generations. Doctor Agnes Craine would die here in 1937."

Glenn J. Lockwood. "Smiths Falls: A Social History of the Men and Women in a Rideau Canal Community 1794-1994." Smiths Falls: Corporation of the Town of Smiths Falls, 1994.

Inscriptions

Identified on front, top centre: "Chambers Memorial Public Hospital, Smiths Falls, Ont., Canada."

No inscription written on the back. Not postmarked or stamped.

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